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Sex and death, dreams and nightmares – the finalists
in the 2013 Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films
capture what makes us tick in magical microcosms
of condensed experience. The 10 films compete for
three illustrious prizes: the Dendy Live Action Short
Award, the Yoram Gross Animation Award and the
Rouben Mamoulian Award for Best Director.
The winners are announced at SFF’s Closing Night
ceremony on Sunday the 16th of June.
All finAlists screen together in two sessions,
with guest filmmAkers in AttendAnce.
sAt 15 Jun 4Pm eV4
sun 16 Jun 11Am eV8
Christopher and Christine Kezelos,
director and producers of
The Maker, winner of the
2012 Yoram Gross Animation Award
All God’s CreAtures
Australia | 2013 | 20 mins | In English
World Premiere
Director: Brendon McDonall | Screenwriter: Jess Paine | Producer: Taylor
Litton-Strain | Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Nicholas Bakopolous-Cooke, Di Adams |
Production Company: Australian Film Television and Radio School
Brothers Asher and Charlie are very different: Asher likes
fishing, swearing, and other boyish pursuits; Charlie likes
tea parties and crafts.
Director Brendon mcdonall is a graduate of UWS Theatre
Nepean (Acting) and a double graduate of AFTRS with
Graduate Diplomas in Directing and Screenwriting.
Butterflies
Australia | 2012 | 12 mins | In English
Director: Isabel Peppard | Screenwriters: Isabel Peppard, Warwick Burton |
Producer: Warwick Burton | Cast: Rachel Griffiths, Nicolas Hope, Henry Nixon
| Production Company: TBC Media Pty Ltd
Feed your dreams or they may feed on you.
Director isabel Peppard began her career as a
prosthetics makeup artist. She uses skills associated with
SPFX makeup to explore a wide range of creative practices
from sculpture to performance art to stop-motion
animation. Butterflies is her second stop-motion animated
short.
i HAve Your HeArt
Australia | 2012 | 4 mins | In English
World Premiere
Director, Producer: Jim Batt | Production Company: Crabapple,
Boekbinder & Batt
This is the story of a good girl with a bad heart, and the
boy whose death will save her life.
Jim Batt is both a live-action director and stop-motion
animator. He has directed several award-winning shorts,
music videos and a feature-length silent film, Dreamtangle.
tHe lAst time i sAw
riCHArd
Australia | 2013 | 22 mins | In English
World Premiere
Director, Screenwriter: Nicholas Verso | Producer: John Molloy | Cast: Toby
Wallace, Cody Fern, Brian Lipson | Production Company: Mushroom Pictures,
Morrissey Molloy Entertainment
Two boys form a bond to protect themselves from the
darklings that hide in the night shadows.
Director Nicholas Verso won the AWGIE for Best Short
Film and Grand Prize for Fantasy at the Rhode Island
International Film Festival for Hugo, and was a Tropfest
finalist with Flight.
Australia | 2012 | 14 mins | In English
Director: Simon Rippingale | Screenwriter: Erica Harrison | Producer:
Pauline Piper | Cast: Cate Blanchett, David Wenham, Barry Otto | Distributor:
ABC Commercial
A girl is born with a tail that expresses her emotions. When
she grows up, the young woman must choose between
conformity and self-expression.
Simon rippingale is a film and television director
specialising in animation. He received an AFI nomination
for Best Visual Effects on Unfolding Florence (directed by
Gillian Armstrong).
A CAutionArY tAil
HeAven
Australia | 2013 | 14 mins | In English
World Premiere
Director, Screenwriter: Maziar Lahooti | Producer: Andrew Brinsmead |
Cast: Don Reid, Wayne Davis, Jill Mackay| Production Company: Australian
Film Television and Radio School
A desperate old man invades a heroin dealer’s home,
making some very unusual demands.
Director maziar lahooti studied cinematography and
directing at TAFE in Perth, and in 2009 graduated from
the directing course at AFTRS, returning in 2012 to study
for his Master of Screen Arts degree.
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2013
SFF.ORG.Au
18 DENDY AwARDS FOR AuSTRALIAN ShORT FILMS